Тексты песен «Laura Veirs»

Hear the whistle blow far off in the still night without stars See the tracks laid flat with a hammer's might They're the spike driver's scars They're the spike driver's scars By the railroad ties, there a hammer lies...

LAURA VEIRS Lake Swimming Lake swimming Shucking free our deadened selves Like snakes and corn do Our bodies tore off swimming suits And all the old notions The cold ocean far away Enter the sun Marching like a...

[Verse 1] Huge currents and voltages Potential for fire, for fire yes (potential!) You take the heat on the rooftops You make it sweet oh please don’t stop [Verse 2] Protector and a messenger Don’t throw in the towel...

The rose is not afraid to blossom Though it knows its petals must fall And with its petals fall seeds into soil Why toil to contain it all? Why toil at all? Ice crystals form from flakes of heaven Fall down weightless...

Oh the dirty wordless fingers come again Where the mermaid singers Oh when I need them Oh how I need them Pretty words doled up on silver platters Chanting sea shanties the words that matter Oh how they shatter me...

LAURA VEIRS Magnetized Slain By your zirconium smile I was slain By your olivine eyes Slain I was lying in piles Hoping shovels would cast me Furnaces burn everlasting Black tattoos of you onto me Furnaces...

[Verse 1] Scuttling claws have cleaned her hands Rising and falling In the whirlpool sand You, you who turn the wheel Your eyes of green and steel Consider Margaret Sands [Chorus] How the gulls cry (how the gulls cry)...

Oh midnight singer Outside my window Oh how your songs Come in strange and low And in my bed I lay silent Hoping you'd stay Hoping you'd go Oh midnight singer Just outside my door Oh how your song Waves on the...

The yellow wind sends brambles through the dust The tractor wheels won't turn for all the rust the corn has died And dried upon the stalk her lips are cracked it hurts to talk it hurts to...

Cold mountain water Jade Merchant’s daughter Mountains of the moon Electra, bow and bend to me Hi ho, the carrion crow Fol de rol de riddle Hi ho, the carrion crow Bow and bend to me Hey, Tom Banjo, hey a laurel More...

Light of the morning day Sadly it will not stay, this perfect pink for too long Couple of hours from now All the sunflowers will frown and turn For the sun is too strong I'll be movin' along, yeah, I'll be movin' along...

Nightingale sing though it's blacker than the bog Nightingale sing to me, I need to hear your song Nightingale come and perch upon my tree A terrifying light's been flashing over me I would not bear to rest I would not...

A handful of dream dust for my pirate He can hear the pPacific singing The sea meets the light in his salt water eyes Icy pictures of the water are captured in his frame The petals of night are unfolding A mermaid's...

Roll Ohio clouds oh roll on in Wash the cigarettes the smell from grandma's skin Clear the dank and dusty kitchenettes The bourbon bottles resting empty on the chest Empty on the chest Grandpa's on the outside of the...

I don't know where i come from but i know it's a place here on earth Somewhere in a desert near a mountain was the place of my birth If you could tell me i would cry if you could tell me I would fly there if you could...

You're paintings scratch lines of blue and gold and open me up was folding into myself a deck of cards face down empty on the shelf your song with emphasis on one and two then i couldn't keep time you took me into a...

At the top of Phantom Mountain I saw the turquoise, brilliant burning sea The sweat on my shoulders, the silvery haze Swords of lightning, hawks and Gulf Stream made me crazy, crazy I could not tell the truth, I could...

Sorry, I was cruel, I was protecting myself Drifting along with my swords out flying Tattering my own cells and I tattered yours too Took you and wrapped you around me like a spell Oh, how now the cold seeps in, oh Oh,...

With photographs And magnetic tape We capture Pretty animals in cages Pretty flowers in vases Enraptured And doesn't the tree Write great poetry? Doin' itself so well Do you blame Monet? His gardens in...

The sky's a raven marching Band black blizzard blowing across the land Come darling take my hand I'm whiskey poured into the sand Star blossoms bloom the night Falling now burning fire bright Come darling take my hand...